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Comment by OneManyNone

6 hours ago

Claude did not find a proof, though. It found an algorithm which Knuth then proved was correct.

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CobrastanJorji  39 minutes ago

Yes, and his point is that finding that algorithm was, to Knuth, the interesting part. Getting from that to a proof was the boring bit.

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